I’ve always loved reprehensible people because they’re so much more interesting to play on screen.
MICHAEL CAINEI have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.
More Michael Caine Quotes
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It’s a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
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In film, other actors’ performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn’t giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.
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Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser.
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The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.
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Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them
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In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.
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Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,”Easy” doesn’t enter into grown-up life.
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Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
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I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
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It’s a lesson in life – don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
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When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors’ characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.
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If you’re a movie actor, you’re on your own – you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
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